The Urban Warrior

Leeds, United Kingdom

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At 16/03/2011:-191 Comments42 favourites387 Views

I cleared a patch of snow yesterday and put down some bird food and guess who was the first dinner guest to arrive. Certainly had no intention of being fashionably late this feisty little guy! He stood his ground and made sure of his share as well when the bigger birds started arriving!

Taken in our back garden in Horsforth near Leeds with a Panasonic Lumix DMC FZ38 and processed from RAW in photoshop elements 9. Finished in Picasa 3.

The European Robin (Erithacus rubecula), most commonly known in Anglophone Europe simply as the Robin, is a small insectivorous passerine bird that was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family (Turdidae), but is now considered to be an Old World flycatcher (Muscicapidae). Around 12.5–14.0 cm (5.0–5.5 in) in length, the male and female are similar in colouration, with an orange breast and face lined with grey, brown upperparts and a whitish belly. It is found across Europe, east to Western Siberia and south to North Africa; it is sedentary in most of its range except the far north.

The term Robin is also applied to some birds in other families with red or orange breasts. These include the American Robin (Turdus migratorius), which is a thrush, and the Australian red robins of the genus Petroica, members of a family whose relationships are unclear.